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Variability in blue carbon storage related to biogeochemical factors in seagrass meadows off the coast of the Korean peninsula.

Science of the Total Environment, 2021
Coastal vegetated habitats such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses, referred to as blue carbon ecosystems, play an important role in climate change mitigation by an effective CO2 capture from atmosphere and water columns and long-term organic ...
S. Kim, Zhaxi Suonan, Le-Zheng Qin, Hyegwang Kim, J. Park, Young Kyun Kim, Suk-Gi Lee, Seong-Gil Kim, C. Kang, Kun‐Seop Lee   +9 more
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Seagrass contributes substantially to the sedimentary lignin pool in an estuarine seagrass meadow

Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Shallow coastal ecosystems are reservoirs of carbon derived from allochthonous organic matter and autochthonous organic matter produced by microalgae and macrophytes. Carbon stored in vegetated coastal ecosystems has attracted broad attention as an important component of carbon sinks.
Masatoshi, Nakakuni, Kenta, Watanabe, Khoki, Kaminaka, Yukiko, Mizuno, Keiko, Takehara, Tomohiro, Kuwae, Shuichi, Yamamoto   +6 more
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Sequential overgrazing by green turtles causes archipelago-wide functional extinctions of seagrass meadows

, 2021
After centuries of decline, green turtle (Chelonia mydas) populations are showing handsome localized recoveries due to dedicated conservation efforts.
Mayuresh Gangal, Al-Badush Gafoor, Elrika D'Souza, N. Kelkar, R. Karkarey, N. Marbà, R. Arthur, T. Alcoverro   +7 more
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Mangrove Forests and Seagrass Meadows

2020
This chapter discusses mangrove forests and seagrass meadows. These represent two of the most valuable marine habitats in the world, important for providing a high level of productivity and physical structure that support a considerable biodiversity of associated animals. However, both systems are remarkable in that they are based on higher plants more
Michel J. Kaiser, Martin J. Attrill, Simon Jennings, David N. Thomas, David K. A. Barnes, Andrew S. Brierley, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Jan Geert Hiddink, Kerry L. Howell, Hermanni Kaartokallio   +9 more
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High Seasonal Variability in Sediment Carbon Stocks of Cold‐Temperate Seagrass Meadows

Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences, 2020
Seagrass meadows have a high ability to capture and store atmospheric CO2 in the plant biomass and underlying sediment and thereby function as efficient carbon sinks. The seagrass Zostera marina is a common species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, a
Martin Dahl, Maria E Asplund, Diana Deyanova   +2 more
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Seagrass Meadows of Northeastern Australia

2016
The northeastern Australian coastline from the tropics (10°S) to the subtropical zone of the southern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and its World Heritage Area (25°S) is famous for coral reefs, a huge drawcard for the Australian tourist industry. Less appreciated but of at least equal importance to ecosystem functionality are the enormous seagrass meadows ...
Coles, R.G., Rasheed, M.A., Grech, A., McKenzie, L.J.   +3 more
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Dynamics of Seagrass Meadows on the Swedish Skagerrak Coast

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2009
Seagrasses have declined in many places around the world, and the Swedish Skagerrak coast is no exception. Between the 1980s and 2000, the cover of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) on the Swedish Skagerrak coast decreased about 60%. In the present study, the sites that were investigated in the 1980s and 2000 were revisited (1655 ha) in 2003 and 2004 to ...
Anna, Nyqvist, Carl, André, Martin, Gullström, Susanne Pihl, Baden, Per, Aberg   +4 more
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Disturbance influences the invasion of a seagrass into an existing meadow

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014
Future impacts from climate change and human activities may increase the likelihood of invasions of native marine species into existing habitats as a result of range shifts. To provide an understanding of the invasion of a native seagrass species (Syringodium isoetifolium) into a tropical multi-species meadow, detailed field assessments were conducted ...
McKenzie, Len J., Yoshida, Rudi L., Unsworth, Richard K.F.   +2 more
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Herbivory in Seagrass Meadows: an Evolving Paradigm

Estuaries and Coasts, 2020
In the past few decades, we have learned much about the factors that regulate the productivity of seagrass-dominated ecosystems, especially those at low latitudes. Here, we update our previous assessments of the importance of seagrass-herbivore interactions, focusing on recent studies that have examined (1) the diversity of herbivores feeding on live ...
John F. Valentine, Kenneth L. Heck
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Light and Photosynthesis in Seagrass Meadows

2006
The distribution of radiant energy in plant canopies determines one of the fundamental interactions of biophysical ecology—that of energy exchange between photosynthetic organisms and their environment. Accurate knowledge of light absorption by plant canopies permits the calculation of important plantand ecosystem-level properties, including rates of ...
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